Ask A VC: Early Twitter Investor And Spark Capital Partner Bijan Sabet On Founder Personality, Investment Syndicates And More

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In this week’s episode of Ask A VC, Spark Capital founder and general partner Bijan Sabet joined us in the studio to talk about investment syndicates and much more.

Sabet was one of the early backers of Twitter (which just filed its S-1 with the SEC for a public offering yesterday) in 2008 and served on the company’s board from 2008 to 2011. Sabet also led investments in Tumblr (acquired by Yahoo), Jelly, Stack Exchange, RunKeeper, Foursquare, Boxee (acquired by Samsung), OMGPOP (acquired by Zynga) and thePlatform (acquired by Comcast).

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BioBijan Sabet has been a General Partner at Spark Capital since its inception in 2005.
Bijan led Spark's investments at Twitter, Tumblr, Boxee, Foursquare, Stack Exchange, ExFM, OMGPOP, and Bug Labs. He also led the investment in thePlatform (acquired by Comcast) and was on the board at Next New Networks (acquired by Google).

OverviewWe are a venture capital firm that invests in startups led by creative thinkers. We are proud supporters of companies such as Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare, Oculus, Admeld, Warby Parker, Postmates, and Wayfair.
We have offices in the Back Bay in Boston, SoHo in New York City, and SoMA in San Francisco. We invest globally—wherever we see the right opportunities. We invest in early stage startups, …